Chapter 132 Replacement and Alienation

The journey from King's Landing to Highgarden was quite long, but Renly did not do nothing during this period.

Wearing gloves to block the attack of the mark on his left hand was always a bad idea. If he could not completely solve the chaos caused by the mark, Renly thought that he might never be able to live a normal life again.

So he has been doing experiments in secret during this period.

If you want to solve the mark, you must first understand it. Renly's first step is to do this.

And the mouse in the jar in front of him is a process he understands. In addition, he also refers to the water cup that turned into sand, the soft dagger, the stone-like button, the bird-like gloves...

The mark attacked many times along the way, which also brought him sufficient experimental materials and reference items.

So he came to many conclusions.

The most basic point is that the things "produced" after the mark attacks are divided into two categories.

Living and non-living, or moving and non-moving.

The moving things include the chicken leg at the beginning, his belt, his velvet cape that suddenly came alive on the road, and of course the flying bird that the gloves turned into.

These things look very strange. At first, Renly thought that it might be the mark that gave these items the ability to come alive, but he later came to another conclusion.

That is, the mark "stuffed" various animals into these things.

This speculation has been hinted since the belt. Although he was a little absent-minded when he went to the toilet, and although the belt ran very fast, Renly still saw the movement of the belt after it changed.

It crawled like a snake.

Later on the road, his cloak also came alive, and its appearance after coming alive was more obvious - it was gathered and folded into shape, like a hollow cloth pony.

The flying bird of the gloves later was similar to this situation.

In order to be more sure of his guess, Renly in the tent tried to stab the most conspicuous pony to death. Although the cloak horse was wrapped in air and there was no effect, when his dagger pierced the surface of the cloak fabric, the monster struggled violently as if it was really pierced, and it looked very scary.

Then, when it was completely dead and turned into a dead cloak with a hole, Renly touched the body of a real pony.

Invisible body.

He determined that this kind of attack of the mark was not to give life to dead things, but to stuff living animals into it.

Then the question is, how is this unreasonable stuffing done?

Where did those animals come from?

Were they moved from the surroundings out of thin air?

Or is there something else he doesn't understand?

Many questions troubled Renly very much, and when he found a linear flower growing on the sleeve of his arm holding the dagger, he understood another point.

Although the horse died, the power that caused it to be stuffed into the cloak did not disappear, but was transferred to his sleeve, and then the sleeve was "stuffed".

If this is the case, the conclusion is very simple. The process of the mark is to stuff one existence into another.

However, the mark is not limited to the living creatures that are stuffed in, but also the buttons that turned into stone and the cups that turned into sand...

If these two are considered, it seems that it is not just stuffing.

It is a replacement.

Replacing one existence with another.

The buttons and cups were replaced very completely, so their appearance changed, while the belts, chicken legs, gloves and cloaks were not completely replaced, so they could only wear the original appearance and do things that are completely inconsistent with their appearance...

Let's not talk about the source of this replacement, how to replace, the survival problem after the replacement, and why there is such a strange situation as incomplete replacement. Simply understanding the replacement still makes Renly feel relieved.

Then he had another doubt.

If it is really just replacement, then what is the situation of the grass growing from the cowhide cushion?

Did this grass replace a piece of the cushion's epidermis?

Renly thought it might be so before, but when he did this experiment with the grass and the mouse, when the mouse in the bottle underwent such a transformation, Renly overturned, or increased his guess.

The ability of the Chaos Mark is not limited to replacement, but also alienation, a very inexplicable alienation.

Therefore, he summed up two conclusions.

The onset of the mark is just releasing two kinds of energy, one energy is replacement, and the other is alienation.

The second conclusion is that there is only one kind of energy released by the onset of the mark. After this energy appears, it will spontaneously integrate into the object it touches, and then a replacement effect will occur, replacing one existence or completely or incompletely with another existence.

But there is also a small probability that it may cause the object to mutate.

This mutation caused grass to grow on the cushion, and the mouse that ate the grass became a "magical creature" with a variety of changes. Although this variety seemed useless, the associations it triggered made Renly feel completely different about the Chaos Mark.

The time of the Mark's energy release was uncontrollable, but after it was released, this energy was basically "fixed". Completely replaced things did not contain energy, but by killing incompletely replaced things, this energy could be released a second time.

In addition, he can also control situations like the alienated grass.

In other words, if the assumption is correct, he can actively create strange creatures like this mouse.

What's the use of this?

Renly hasn't thought about it yet, or he's not sure yet.

Due to the uncontrollable secondary emission of that invisible energy and its uncertainty, Renly is afraid that the energy will penetrate into his body when he does it himself,

So except for killing a "foal" for the experiment at the beginning, he only fed a mouse with the grass along the way, and did not create other test targets.

In other words, he is not sure whether the energy emission is one or two, nor is he sure whether the specific function of the alienated thing is just to change the appearance like this mouse, or whether it will have other abilities...

Under the candlelight in the exquisite room, the black-haired boy slumped on the cold ground, looking down at the tattoo on his left wrist thoughtfully.

A mouse will have such a wonderful change after being alienated, and what will happen if this energy really penetrates into the human body?

...

The next morning, after having a hearty breakfast with the Tyrell family, Renly was taken to the maester's room by two brothers, one big and one small, to start planning his future study goals.

The maester serving the castle of Highgarden is called Lomis. He doesn't look old, only in his forties, with a tough face. Standing under the only window in the room, his bald head is particularly obvious. Judging from the remaining hair on both sides, he should have been a blond handsome guy before, but unfortunately the cruel reality made him reveal the state of an old man too early.

"I am good at ravens, languages, history, astronomy, and medicine. I also have a certain understanding of taming hounds and falcons."

After greeting, the bald maester claimed so.

"Then I wonder what Lord Renly learned when he was at Storm's End and the Red Keep?"

"You basically don't need to study heraldry any more, and the basics of Common Speech are almost there." Renly replied, "There's nothing else."

In fact, he knows a lot of things, but those things can't be mentioned, but these two points alone are enough to prove his "hard work". After all, these two kinds of knowledge basically run through the childhood of every noble child. Under normal circumstances, a child under the age of six would not be so "learned".

"You don't need to study any more, are you sure?"

Maester Lomis frowned when he heard this, feeling that the child liked to brag a little.

"Heraldry involves the entire lord family of Westeros, Lord Renly, we have to learn more than just the heraldry related to the Stormlands."

Renly shrugged.

The other party then took out a book of heraldry and began to test Renly carefully.

"Where is Bear Island located in Westeros?"

"In the North, in the western sea of ​​Winterfell, in a harbor called the Frost Bay."

Renly answered, and without asking, he said, "The Mormont family rules Bear Island. The family emblem is a big bear in the green jungle. The family motto is to stand tall. The current head of the Mormont family is Jorah Mormont, who inherited the status from his father Jeor Mormont. The family's original history..."

The endless words made the maester nod frequently. Then he asked about the remote territory of the Vale, the weak families of the Iron Islands, the mountain lords of Dorne, and even some extinct ancient families... The original unbelief gradually changed.

The brown-haired boy Willas, who was standing aside and listening quietly, finally couldn't help but look at the fat boy who was about the same age as Renly, or one year older than Renly.

Seeing this, the other party pursed his lips and muttered in a low voice before his brother said anything.

"I've tried very hard, but what can I do if I can't remember..."

The voice was not loud, but it stopped the question and answer appropriately. Maester Lomis, who was sitting behind the desk, glanced at the little fat man, coughed dryly, and then said to Renly: "Okay, my lord, you really don't need to continue to study heraldry in depth, and I won't test your reading and writing of the common language. Then let's get to the point. What do you hope to learn from me?"

"History and language." Renly thought for a while and answered.

Although the copy world he entered seemed to be able to be changed, there was only one example, and Renly could not be sure whether the world he entered next time would be connected to the previous one.

Of course, he did not dare to guarantee when he could enter next time. The dagger he brought was always silent, and the fragrance was always so faint. It has been almost two months since he got it, and it has not increased much. At the same time, although he entered a new environment, this castle obviously did not have the rich "background" of King's Landing, which allowed Renly to smell the fragrance.

"As for languages, in addition to the Common Speech, I am also good at High Valyrian, Low Valyrian, and the dialects and slangs of the nine free trade cities. In addition, I am fairly proficient in Dothraki and Trade Speech, and I am also basically familiar with Qartheen and Lhazareen. The more special one is the Old North Speech, which is a very ancient language. It is said that the wildlings outside the Great Wall are still using it... My Lord, are you going to learn all of them, or just a few of them?"

High Valyrian was the common language of the ancient Valyrian Freehold. After the destruction of the Valyrian Freehold, this language was basically unused. However, Renly was more interested in it because he learned from Rhaenys that this language involved dragons.

Low Valyrian is basically equivalent to the common language of the nine free trade cities in the East Continent. Of course, the Low Valyrian used by each city-state has a certain localization and dialect, so it needs to be classified in detail.

Renly, who has the dream of being a traveler, has long wanted to explore the East Continent, and naturally would not let go of this language.

As for other languages ​​such as Dothraki and ancient languages, he has no interest in them. He is not interested in the barbaric nomads in his memory, nor does he want to go to the dangerous Far North to talk to a group of wild people (still a little bit), so he does not plan to spend time learning it.

He is somewhat interested in the last trade language, because it is a professional jargon commonly used among sailors and pirates around the world.

After expressing his own thoughts, the bald scholar nodded, and Renly's studies in Highgarden were basically finalized.

However, no one knew that because of the discovery of the left hand, Renly was actually preparing to learn another subject besides these, a subject that most scholars thought was useless -

magic.

Thank you to Xinlin95 book friend and Hehuazizai Jiugemisi book friend for the 10,000 reward!

Thank you to the book friend who loves Rem Sauce for the 500 reward, and thank you to the book friends Xiaotang246 and Qian Diyin for the 100 reward~